Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

31st May 1786

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539. ROSE FITZPATRICK proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 1284. was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 29th day of April last, one black silk cloak, value 2 s. the property of Joseph Hammer proceedingsvictim , two aprons, value 6 d. one other apron, value 1 s. a lawn apron, value 1 s. one other apron, value 2 d. three child's callico shirts, value 1 s. a bed-gown, value 1 d. a neck handkerchief, value 1 d. and a quarter of a yard of brown silk, value 2 d. a waistcoat, value 1 d. a pocket, value a halfpenny, three shirts, value 1 s. the property of Thomas Thrill Wynd proceedingsvictim .

MARY THRILL WYND < no role > sworn.

On the 29th of April, I lost the things mentioned in the indictment out of a drawer. (Repeats them.) They were all kept in one drawer, except the cloak, which was on the ground floor.

JOSEPH HAMMER < no role > sworn.

I lost my wife's cloak, it was on the prisoner's back when I took her, which was about sixty yards off the house; I found the things upon her.

(Deposed to.)

LYDIA SALKELD < no role > sworn.

I am servant to Mr. Wiltshire; I saw the prisoner go in and out of the prosecutor's house on Saturday, between three and four; I saw nothing in her apron.

PRISONER's DEFENCE.

I was buying them of a muffin man, when the prosecutor came and knocked me down.

Prosecutor. She was offering them for sale to the muffin man.

GUILTY .

To be privately whipped , and imprisoned twelve months in the House of Correction .

Tried by the London Jury before Mr. ROSE.




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